• Kresten@feddit.dk
    1188·
    2 years ago

    Or you could just… socialize 🤔

    EDIT: Assuming it’s two people who know each other already. Why would a stranger go up to you, to ask how’s it going, when they don’t know you at all?

    • HikingVet
      484·
      2 years ago

      You are not owed interpersonal interaction because you want it.

      • Kresten@feddit.dk
        39·
        2 years ago

        If I recognize someone, then I’ll ask them how’s it going, either to be polite, or because I genuinely care about them

        • marcos@lemmy.world
          101·
          2 years ago

          “Fuck whatever you are doing, I want to talk to you right now for not reason at all” is not a very polite message to pass.

          If people make themselves uncomfortable just so they can clearly tell you that they do not want to talk to you… it may be because they don’t want to talk to you.

          • crossal@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 years ago

            If someone has headphones on, you can wave, and if they take them off then greet them. If they have no headphones in, you can just greet them

            • marcos@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 years ago

              If you are waving at people that clearly aren’t in the mood for empty chatting, it’s certainly because you have something important to say.

              • crossal@lemmy.world
                5·
                2 years ago

                Someone with headphones on does not necessarily mean they wouldn’t want to chat. And a wave doesn’t necessarily mean the waver wants to chat either (I don’t mean waving right next to someone to get their attention)

          • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
            11·
            2 years ago

            It’s like fishing. I don’t HAVE to do it. But I enjoy the atmosphere. It’s one of the last things I have left in this world from my youth. I spent almost every free minute I could in school in either the library or computer lab.

            • Feirdro@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 years ago

              Once, libraries were quiet places. Then computers took over. Now everyone’s got a smart phone I’m hoping they can be quiet again.

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                2 years ago

                As if the people stupid enough to not take precautions against covid even know where their local library IS, let alone have any desire to enter 🙄

    • Feirdro@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 years ago

      Nobody wants me to do that. You think you do, but you really don’t. One way or another someone’s getting their feelings hurt

          • Kresten@feddit.dk
            21·
            2 years ago

            If I recognize someone I know, and I’m in a mood to chat, then no, probably not.

            • HikingVet
              11·
              2 years ago

              And you don’t understand how that may come off as assholish behaviour.

              • Kresten@feddit.dk
                2·
                2 years ago

                I have absolutely no idea at all. Completely blank. I’m not American, so it’s most likely a difference in culture. Chatting to people I know, has always been a pleasant experience.

                /I’m serious, I’m completely oblivious to how it’s assholish behaviour to talk to people I know-

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          47·
          2 years ago

          So basically exactly the same as if they left me alone? Except now I’m annoyed that I was interrupted for nothing?